Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jean Lacouture is a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. And for him, that is enough. But since his arrival at Harvard from Paris six weeks ago, reporters, pacifists, Radcliffe girls, even Senators have tried to make him something more--their champion of truth, justice, and the anti-administration...
Anyone with even a superficial knowledge of existentialism and Marxism can sense a basic incompatibility between the two dogmas. Jean-Paul Sartre is making a valiant attempt to embrace them both. The Condemned of Altona--written a few years before the Critique of Dialectical Reason, Sartre's futile attempt at reconciliation--reflects the tension that has resulted. To this philosophical mixture is added a complicated plot and allegory on the Algerian War, which was raging when the play was written. (The name of the hero, a former Nazi officer who was the "Butcher of Smolensk" is Frantz, rhymes with France...
Most students seem to enjoy the new freedom. "The old system," argues a Yale student, "was an insult to the secondary education system and to the kind of student who gets into Yale." Jean Basehore, studying independently at Allegheny, finds that "now I'm reading more, pushing myself more to satisfy my own curiosity." Colorado College's Faith Hughes contends that "If I dig things out myself, I understand them better...
...stones, were the unmistakable traces of a dwelling built by man on the shores of the Mediterranean 200,000 years ago. "It is certainly the oldest organized human dwelling yet dug up," says Sorbonne Prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan. France's fore most authority on paleontology, Profes sor Jean Piveteau, is equally emphatic. "It appears to show that prehistoric man already had a certain social organization 200,000 years ago." Before the Nice discovery, the oldest known man-made dwelling, dating from around 150,000 years ago, was unearthed in southern Italy, but it contained far fewer and less interesting...
French journalist Jean Lacouture, author of three books on Vietnam and a research fellow at Harvard, last night criticized General Maxwell Taylor's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...